This is the same as the Father's Day pencil holder, but here, we made a flower vase for Mother's Day.

Materials:

toilet paper roll

paper clay

paint, brushes

cardboard, cereal box

scissors

glue

Directions:

Trace a circle on cardboard or a cereal box about 8 cm or 3 inches across and cut out. This is about an inch or so wider than the the end of the toilet roll.

Flatten out the paper clay to an even thickness about 0.2 inches or 0.5 cm.

Trace a rectangle about 11.5 x 13 cm (4.5 x 5 inches) in the clay with a putty knife and peel off the excess. This will wrap around the toilet roll. An easy way is to take another toilet roll, cut lengthwise, flatten, and trace around it, but with a little extra the long way.

Smear glue on the clay and toilet roll and roll and roll the clay around.

Dad's like practical gifts. Here's one that he'll love. Recycle a toilet paper roll into a pencil holder for his desk. He'll be so surprised.

Materials:

toilet paper roll

paper clay

paint, brushes

cardboard, cereal box

scissors

glue

Directions:

Trace a circle on cardboard or a cereal box about 8 cm or 3 inches across and cut out. This is about an inch or so wider than the the end of the toilet roll.

Flatten out the paper clay to an even thickness about 0.2 inches or 0.5 cm.

Trace a rectangle about 11.5 x 13 cm (4.5 x 5 inches) in the clay with a putty knife and peel off the excess. This will wrap around the toilet roll. An easy way is to take another toilet roll, cut lengthwise, flatten, and trace around it, but with a little extra the long way.

Smear glue on the clay and toilet roll and roll and roll the clay around.

Here's a simple craft to teach the Aesop's fable, "The Goose that laid the Golden Egg". In the story, a woman has a goose that lays one gold egg a day, but she is greedy and wants all the gold at once. She kills the goose and cuts it open, but finds nothing. The story is a little cruel, but this craft is innocent and cute.

Materials:

1 sheet of blue construction paper

simple goose template cut from card stock

egg cut from card stock

scissors

glue

craft feathers

crayons

"The Goose that laid the Golden Egg" title

Directions:

Have the goose and egg cut out beforehand, or let student's do it.

Color a face on the goose and color the egg gold or yellow.

Glue the goose and egg to the blue paper.

Glue craft feathers onto the egg.

Print out the title and glue to the top or have students write it themselves. Display your golden geese.